Word: flash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though schools are required to house and entertain visiting athletes "on a scale comparable to that of normal student life," the rule is widely ignored. Richard Washington, now a freshman basketball player at U.C.L.A., visited half a dozen schools as a high school senior in Portland, Ore. "They flash you bills when you get there," he reports. "You get an expensive room, a player takes you to a top restaurant and fixes you up with a couple of girls. It's really nice." Students who travel to Las Vegas for a look at the University of Nevada...
...girl and a very thin girl had been waling up together throughout the show to take pictures of the performers and now when the people saw Donna Fargo bend down to give them a better shot they all started coming up too with their Instamatics and there were flash cubes going off right and left while she kept singing and bending down...
...line is posted at noon each Tuesday during the season. Up to and including the posting, everything is legal, because gambling is legitimate in Las Vegas. When the line is official, though, spotters congregated at Churchill Downs scramble to flash the figures to their bookie bosses across the U.S., usually through a network of pay phones. At that point, because it is a federal offense to transmit gambling information across state lines, professional football betting becomes the nation's most prominent interstate illegality...
Wonderful potential, and wasted. Serpico has some brutal surface flash and an acetylene performance by Al Pacino in the title role, but its energy is used to dodge all the questions it should have raised and answered. It is not enough to have Serpico reminisce about his childhood, recalling the impression of power and control he got from a couple of guys in blue uniforms, to explain what brought him to the force. It is clearly shown that Serpico is a New York street kid, but this movie asks us not only to accept that a man with that back...
...There's Jeff Beck's introduction to "Over, Under, Sideways, Down;" Ray Davies' integration of "Land of 1000 Dances" into his archetypal "Top of the Pops;" the musical moment between "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk Women," which signified the end of mainstream Sgt. Pepper experimentation; "Lola." Pithy moments that, like good imagist poetry, are form, substance and implication in the instant they are heard. Take Peter Townshend's "My Generation." The singer's stutter says as much as the lyrics and says it better...